Year 6 – Home Learning

Task 1: Read daily for at least 20 minutes. Ask someone at home to check that you have understood what has happened by asking you questions. You could also ask them questions about your book too!

Task 2: Practise TT Rockstars daily for at least 20 minutes (write your login down so that it is safe).

Task 3: Write a short diary entry so that you can update the class about what you have been up to!

Task 4: Each day, complete one ’10-minute test’ per CGP book (maths, reading and SpAG).

Task 5: Complete an A4 profile for somebody you feel is a ‘modern day hero’ e.g. Greta Thunberg.

Task 6: Write a short story that includes a villain. You can base this on a character from a book or a film if it helps!

Task 7: Create yourself calculations using the digits 0-9: column addition (4 digit), column subtraction (4 digit), long multiplication (4 digit by 2 digit) and long division (4 digit by 2 digit).

Task 8: Complete an Electricity Fact File. What do you know? Include definitions, labelled diagrams and explanations as to how you think electricity works!

Task 9: Write a letter to Year 5 explaining what they should expect from Year 6 next year! Try to include the features from our Year 6 Writing Checklist.

Task 10: Draw and label a map of your local area. Use symbols and a key. Can you create questions to go with your map?

Spellings!

Practise the statutory spelling words daily – see if somebody in your family can test you on them!

Brain Breaks!

Each day, when you are completing your tasks, try to get up and move around every half an hour! This could be a simple walk to stretch your legs or include exercises too: star jumps, knee tucks, press ups, sit ups, tummy crunches, burpees or even the plank! Feel free to add in your own and draw diagrams of what you have been up to!

Optional Extras!

• Cooking! Can you make something delicious? Take a photograph or draw a picture!
• Playing games! Can you play a board game? Or even a game of hide and seek! Who was the winner?
• Write a song! It could be a song that will help you/the class to revise?
• Artwork! Can you complete a still life sketch of an object in your house? Try to pick something inspirational!

English

• Read lots of books with your child; talk about the plot and ask and answer questions. Support them to sound-talk and blend words.
• Write a book review about a book; what did you like? What did you not like? Draw a picture.
• Draw a new front cover for a book. Could you add a speech or a thought bubble?
• Can you re-write the story? Could you re-write it and change where the story setting is/ or change a character.
• Act out a story yourself and using toys.
• Make puppets of your favourite story character using paper, card, old gloves and socks!
• Watch Julia Donaldson books on BBC iplayer and turn the sub-titles on to practise reading.
• Practise reading and writing tricky words. Play games with them such as snap or splat! Can you remember the letters in that tricky word? Can you write a sentence with that tricky word in?
• Online phonics games; www.ictgames.com
• www.lettersandsounds.com
• Practise your handwriting!

Mathematics

• Play a board game; snakes and ladders!
• Count forwards and backwards to 100.
• Make your own number line using a long roll of paper – can you jump forwards and backwards? What is one more or one less than that number?
• Put number cards in order.
• Count out groups of objects up to twenty! 1 car, 2 teddies, 3 sweets …
• Use objects to add together or subtract two or three sets and write the equation 9+5= 23-8=
• Name 3D shapes and see if you can find any objects in your house that match them? What properties does a ball/ sphere have? 1 curved face.
• Online maths games:
  www.topmarks.co.uk
  www.bbb.co.uk/bitesize
  www.ictgames.com

Cross-curricular projects

• Bake something delicious; write the ingredients in a list, write the method and read the recipe. Use scales and cups to measure ingredients. Create a food menu for your tea!
• Research a sea creature! Use books/ the internet with help from an adult. Write a fact-file!
• Sort animals in the sea into omnivores, carnivores or herbivores! Record this by writing and drawing.
• Build the titanic using blocks in you have them or junk modelling materials such as tubes, food packets etc. Think about all the different parts of the ship such as the funnels and the hull. Draw the titanic and label it.
• Make a paper-mache globe using a balloon and newspaper and glue. Talk about and label the seven continents and the oceans of the world.
• Use google maps to find places in the world.
• Make some playdough! Add smells and colours. Create 3D sculptures; make shapes.
• Design a life-jacket that would be able to float in your sink for 10 minutes. Discuss materials that float and sink.
• Look after a plant; talk about leaves, buds, stems. What happens over time?
• Grow anything from seeds; observe what happens. For example, cress – it even grows on cotton wool!